Post Tagged with: "kindle"

Is there a future for dedicated eReaders?
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Is there a future for dedicated eReaders?

When Amazon introduced their first Kindle eReader, there were a lot of articles that suggested that this device represented the future of books. Many wrote that thanks to the Kindle, eBooks would go mainstream and be the most popular way people would read a book in the future. To some degree, there was a lot [...]

Published by on April 9, 2012 7:22 am
Amazon & the End of the Book
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Amazon & the End of the Book

With the end of the Nook for Barnes & Noble and doom and gloom on expected losses and lowered guidance for fiscal 2012, the company’s stock fell 18 percent. The Nook was the poster child of Barnes & Noble’s in-store growth strategy. It’s nemesis, Amazon, is doling out cash to authors who make their e-books available exclusively [...]

Published by on January 6, 2012 8:56 am
A $299 Amazon Kindle Fire- What It Could Be
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A $299 Amazon Kindle Fire- What It Could Be

Last week the industry was engrossed in the Amazon Kindle Fire launch. There was lots of excitement, speculation and many questions on it. The $199 price point was one of the biggest points of excitement, particularly in that it was less than half the price of the Apple iPad 2. What could a $299 Fire [...]

Published by on October 3, 2011 3:40 am
The New Kindles=Razor and Razor Blades with eBook Readers
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The New Kindles=Razor and Razor Blades with eBook Readers

The new Kindles, with prices at $79 and $99 finally introduces the concept of the razor and razor blade business model to eBooks. We are all familiar with the idea of razor companies creating very cheap razors and then getting people to come back and buy a never-ending supply of razor blades to use for [...]

Published by on October 3, 2011 3:36 am
Unanswered Questions about the Amazon Kindle Fire
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Unanswered Questions about the Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon threw their axe into the tablet sea Wednesday with the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire. On paper, the Kindle Fire seems like a killer value proposition. For $199, you get continuous computing access to 18 million books, movies, TV shows, music, newspapers, unlimited cloud content storage, and fastest web browsing. And all this [...]

Published by on September 30, 2011 8:02 pm
Kindle Fire Threatens Google More Than Apple
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Kindle Fire Threatens Google More Than Apple

Much of the coverage of Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle Fire has, understandably, focused on the potential competition with Apple’s iPad. While the two products are clear competitive in the sense that some consumers will pick one and forego the other, it is entirely possible that Amazon will sell millions of Fires without making much of a dent in iPad [...]

Published by on September 29, 2011 2:35 pm
Is There a Technology Race to the Bottom With Price?
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Is There a Technology Race to the Bottom With Price?

I have been surveying the collective schools of thought related to the Amazon Kindle Fire launch. One thing that many writing publicly on the matter emphasize is the price of the Fire and rightly so. $199 is an aggressive price but I would argue that price is not everything when it comes to personal technology. [...]

Published by on September 29, 2011 9:10 am
Why Amazon’s Silk Browser is a Big Deal
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Why Amazon’s Silk Browser is a Big Deal

In my opinion what Amazon has created with their Silk browser is the most interesting part of their Kindle Fire announcement. One of the key reasons is because it is an example of the kind of differentiation I have been ranting about lately – especially around “tablets.” I have been writing quite a bit about [...]

Published by on September 28, 2011 1:45 pm
AWS: Amazon’s Secret Weapon
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AWS: Amazon’s Secret Weapon

Most consumers think of Amazon.com as a company that sells books and a whole lot of other stuff. But it is also a deep technology company that has turned its technology both into a product and a big competitive advantage. Amazon Web Services is a vast online computing infrastructure that Amazon both uses itself and [...]

Published by on September 28, 2011 12:12 pm
Kindle Fire: The Disruptive Power of Amazon
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Kindle Fire: The Disruptive Power of Amazon

Amazon.com launched its long-awaited tablet, the Kindle Fire,  today and once again established its place, alongside Apple and Google, in the Bit Three of economic disrupters.  My colleague Tim Bajarin has written about the details of the $199 tablet and why it will be a game changer. I am going to focus on the impact [...]

Published by on September 28, 2011 11:10 am
The Kindle Fire is a Game Changer
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The Kindle Fire is a Game Changer

After months of speculation, Amazon finally rolled out the Kindle Fire this morning, their version of a cross between a super eBook reader and a small tablet. But make no mistake, this product is a game changer. And it has the potential of really helping refine the market for both future eReaders and tablets. The [...]

Published by on September 28, 2011 7:54 am
7″ Media Tablets Like Kindle Fire…”Dead On Arrival”?
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7″ Media Tablets Like Kindle Fire…”Dead On Arrival”?

UPDATED with Amazon Kindle “Fire” references. A few weeks ago, TechCrunch reported that Amazon’s 7″ Kindle tablet was “very real” and would ship for the 2011 holidays.  (UPDATED: Now rumored to be called “Kindle Fire“.  ) Almost a year before that, Wired’s Brian Chen reported that on an earnings call, Jobs said, “the current crop of [...]

Published by on September 8, 2011 4:18 am
Is there a market for Good Enough “Tablets?”
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Is there a market for Good Enough “Tablets?”

In April I wrote in my PC Mag column about Amazon Stealing Android from Google and argued in this piece that Amazon was most likely building their own proprietary approach to integrating their overall Android Store and a set of music, video and cloud services and integrate it into their future tablet offering. Then, in [...]

Published by on September 7, 2011 3:07 am
Amazon Plans on Stealing Android Developers From Google
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Amazon Plans on Stealing Android Developers From Google

You may think such a statement sounds absurd. However if a recent report from MG Siegler at TechCrunch is true then Amazon wants to lure Android developers for their own version of Android and Kindle products. Tim Bajarin in an April PC Magazine column explored this similar line of thinking and now we have more [...]

Published by on September 2, 2011 10:45 pm